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Universal Gravitation

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Newton's law of universal gravitation describes gravity as a force by stating that every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force that is proportional to their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers of mass.

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Physics Classical mechanics Gravity Inverse-square law

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